Toward a better understanding of freshwater fish responses to an increasingly drought-stricken world

RJ Lennox, DA Crook, PB Moyle, DP Struthers… - Reviews in fish biology …, 2019 - Springer
Drought is a constant and important consequence of natural climatic processes and most
freshwater fishes have adaptations to counter its effects. However, a changing global climate …

Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero‐flow stream gage readings

MA Zimmer, KE Kaiser, JR Blaszczak… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Streamflow observations can be used to understand, predict, and contextualize hydrologic,
ecological, and biogeochemical processes and conditions in streams. Stream gages are …

Refuges and ecological traps: Extreme drought threatens persistence of an endangered fish in intermittent streams

R Vander Vorste, M Obedzinski… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent droughts raise global concern over potential biodiversity loss and mitigating impacts
to vulnerable species has become a management priority. However, drought impacts on …

Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages

JS Perkin, KB Gido, JA Falke, KD Fausch… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Groundwater pum** for agriculture is a major driver causing declines of global freshwater
ecosystems, yet the ecological consequences for stream fish assemblages are rarely …

The effects of drought on biodiversity in UK river ecosystems: Drying rivers in a wet country

R Stubbington, J England… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is interacting with water resource pressures to alter the frequency, severity
and spatial extent of drought, which can thus no longer be considered a purely natural …

How big of an effect do small dams have? Using geomorphological footprints to quantify spatial impact of low-head dams and identify patterns of across-dam variation

JS Fencl, ME Mather, KH Costigan, MD Daniels - PLoS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Longitudinal connectivity is a fundamental characteristic of rivers that can be disrupted by
natural and anthropogenic processes. Dams are significant disruptions to streams. Over …

Declining streamflow induces collapse and replacement of native fish in the American Southwest

A Ruhí, JD Olden, JL Sabo - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity is a global threat to freshwater biodiversity, but connecting variation in
streamflow to viability of imperiled faunas remains a challenge. Here we combined time …

No quarter: Lack of refuge during flow intermittency results in catastrophic mortality of an imperiled minnow

TP Archdeacon, JK Reale - Freshwater Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many once‐perennial rivers have become intermittent. Channel drying can result in fish
mortality if refuges are not available. Understanding where refuges occur and if fishes use …

Citizen scientists document long-term streamflow declines in intermittent rivers of the desert southwest, USA

DC Allen, DA Kopp, KH Costigan, T Datry… - Freshwater …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Intermittent rivers are spatially dynamic, expanding and contracting in response to changes
in water availability, but studies that explicitly examine spatial drying patterns are scarce. We …

The emblematic minnows of the North American Great Plains: a synthesis of threats and conservation opportunities

TA Worthington, AA Echelle, JS Perkin… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic changes to the Great Plains rivers of North America have had a large,
negative effect on a reproductive guild of pelagic‐broadcast spawning (PBS) cyprinid fishes …